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Cool Apps: Don’t Drown In Information…Get STREAMY!

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streamy-logo1So, you’re using social media tools on The Web. That’s great! You’re on Twitter. Facebook. FriendFeed. You read blogs (and write them, too, hopefully). You upload pictures to Flickr. You have information up the proverbial wazoo. How do you keep track of it all? How can you keep from drowning in a sea of information?

Enter Streamy.

Streamy gives you the power to link ALL of your social media feeds, such as Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, & Digg, as well as IM services that you might use, like AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! or MSN Live. You can organize everything in one, easy to manage space.

On Twitter, for example, you can follow your friends’ tweet streams, keep track of trending topics, organize your saved searches, or even focus in on a particular person (or company) whose tweets you’d like to follow. The functionality for Facebook or FriendFeed is very similar. One size does NOT fit all; organize things in the way that works best for you.

But there’s more.

Update your status across all of your feeds, or just one. You decide where you want your updates to be seen; if you only want your Facebook friends to know that what you’re making for dinner, it’s your choice. Only share the information you want.

You want to read blogs and stay as up-to-date on current information as possible, right? You want to know what your friends and colleagues are saying. But all of those blog/RSS feeds can get cumbersome. Streamy can organize all of it. Import all of your RSS feeds, and organize them by category, or by friend, or both. Read a post that you really like? Send a tweet about it. Drag and drop it into a friend’s feed. Post it to Facebook. It’s up to you.

Streamy. Easy to follow, easy to read, easy to share everything across the Web.


Cool Apps: ExpenseBay.com Puts Expense Management In Gear

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Do you have “The Shoebox”? Or, at least, something similar. A box, a drawer, a really big, old boot in which you stuff each and every receipt, note about business expenses and all manner of other scraps of paper designed to send your accountant into cardiac arrest.

Normally, Cool Apps gives you information about some great new tech tool that you can use to generate new business. Today, we’re going to talk about something that will help you manage current business, so that you can spend more time working with and paying attention to your clients.

 Hence, ExpenseBay.com.

 ExpenseBay is an entirely new kind of expense management system. What makes it so different? Well, for starters, it couldn’t be easier. Simply sign up, and enter the credit cards that you use for business transactions. ExpenseBay will download all of your transactions, categorize them, and place them in the right expense reports. (How does it know?)

 But wait … there’s more!

About that shoebox full of receipts. With ExpenseBay, that box’s time is done. You can scan your receipts and email the images to your ExpenseBay account. The system will sort them and make sure they are categorized properly. Even cooler, if you have an iPhone (yeah, there’s an app for that), simply take a snapshot of your receipt and the image will be entered into your weekly expense report. Enter cash transactions with just a few clicks. Add notes, so you don’t forget important details. Oh, and it’s free.

You’re a busy agent. You have clients to take care of, your own business to nurture. Managing expenses shouldn’t give you palpitations or have you looking to hide your head in the sand. You don’t have time for stress like that. ExpenseBay will make it easy to get it all in gear, and your accountant will thank you for it.

And you can use that shoebox for shoes.


Intero Cool Apps: Create your own online magazine with Issuu

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issuu-logoMaking the move from print to digital marketing is challenging for most of us. But here’s a tool that makes it a lot easier.

Issu allows you to create a compelling online “magazine” from any document or pdf file. You simply upload your file and Issuu automatically converts it into a display that can be searched, zoomed or paged through just like a magazine.

You can then embed your magazine in your website or blog with a simple copy and paste. Visitors can easily view or share your magazine.

Click here to view a short video explaining Issuu.

Click here to see how an agent in North Carolina used issue for a listing brochure.

How to use Issuu:

There are lots of uses, but here are a couple quick ideas:

  • Highlight your use of Issuu in your listing presentation as a way of explaining how you merchandise listings in an innovative way.
  • Upload key real estate forms to Issuu for clients to review more easily during the transaction.

And the best thing of all? Issuu is completely free for most uses!